Senior Agentic Identity Platform Architect

Accenture; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life

Long‑term disability

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Agentic Identity Platform. This leadership role focuses on design decisions, prototyping, and setting direction in client environments.

You'll engage directly with client engineers and balance build-versus-buy choices while maintaining technical depth. You’ll contribute to architectures across identity primitives, registries, and policy engines, often before documentation exists.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience building and shipping production software.
• Minimum of 4 years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TS, Java, or C++.
• Minimum of 4 years designing and building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design for an engagement, including the decisions you'll be held to when they're wrong.
• Set the technical direction the engineers on your engagement follow, and review their code.
• Reverse-engineer how identity actually works in a client environment, then design what it should be.
• Make the build-versus-buy calls and document why, in a form that survives your leaving the project.
• Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists.
• Grow the engineers around you, primarily by working alongside them rather than reviewing from a distance.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Code review

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for the Agentic Identity Platform. This leadership role focuses on design decisions, prototyping, and setting direction in client environments.

You'll engage directly with client engineers and balance build-versus-buy choices while maintaining technical depth. You’ll contribute to architectures across identity primitives, registries, and policy engines, often before documentation exists.